Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I never really followed grunge.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.